Curriculum Vitae December 2008 Charles W. Fornara David Benedict Prof. of Classics; Prof. of History Department of Claswics 206 Macfarlane House, Box 1856 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-2992 e-mail: [email protected] Education: 1956 B.A. Columbia College 1958 M.A. University of Chicago 1961 Ph.D. in History, University of California at Los Angeles. Major fields: Greek, Roman, Early Medieval (Western), Medieval (Arabic); Greek philology. Dissertation topic: The Athenian Strategia 501-404. Professional Appointments: 1961-3 Instructor, Ohio State University 1963-7 Assistant Prof., Brown University 1967-70 Associate Professor, Brown University 1970- Professor of Classics, Brown University 1976 (Spring term) Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin 1977- Professor of History (joint appointment), Brown Univ. 1983 (Spring term) Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Spring 1983. 1987- David Benedict Professor of Greek, Classics, Brown University Completed Research a (books) The Athenian Board of Generals 501-404, Historia Einzelschrift 16, Wiesbaden 1971. Herodotus, An Interpretative Essay, Oxford 1971 Archaic Times to the Peloponnesian War, ed. 1. Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) 1977; 2nd ed., Cambridge (England) 1983. The Nature of History in Greece and Rome, Berkeley 1983. Fornara and L. J. Samons, Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles, Berkeley 1983. Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker IIIc, Geschichte von Städten und Völkern (Horographie und Ethnographie), Fascicle I, Commentary on Nos. 608a-608, (written in English) Leiden 1994. b (chapters in books or the equivalent) "Human History and the Constraint of Fate in Herodotus," in J.W. Allison, ed., Conflict, Antithesis and the Ancient Historian, Columbus 1990, Chapter 2, p. 25-45. "The Prefaces of Ammianus Marcellinus, " in M. Griffith, D. Mastronarde, edd., Cabinet of the Muses. Essays in Honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, Atlanta 1990, p. 163-72. "Thucydides' Birth-date," in Nomodeiktes, Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald, ed. R. Rosen and J. Farrell, Ann Arbor, 1993, p. 71-80. "Thucydides 1.89," in Text and Tradition: Studies in Greek History and Historiography in Honor of Mortimer Chambers, ed. R. Mellor and Lawrence Tritle, Claremont, Calif., 1999, p. 153-162. “Thucydides 2.13.3: 600 T. of Tribute,” in Gestures, Essays in Ancient History, Literature and Philosophy presented to Alan Boegehold, edd. G. Bakewell, J. Sickinger, Exeter 2003, p.251-7. "Manethon in the Excerpta Latina Barbari," in G. O. Mazur, ed., Twenty-Five Year Commemoration to the Life of Georges Florovsky, Semenko Foundation, New York 2005, p.161-201. c (refereed journal articles) "A Note on Ath. Pol. 22," Classical Quarterly 13, 1963, 101-4. "The Hoplite Achievement at Psytalleia," Journal of Hellenic Studies 86, 1966, 51-54. "Sources of Plutarch's An seni sit gerenda res publica," Philologus 110, 1966, 119-27. "Some Aspects of the Career of Pausanias of Sparta," Historia 15, 1966, 257-271. "The Value of the Themistocles Decree", American Historical Review 73, 1967, 425-33. Reprinted in D. Kagan, Problems in Ancient History, New York, London 1975), 2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 291-7. "Two Notes on Thucydides," Philologus 111, 1967, 291- 5. "Hellanicus and an Alcmeonid Tradition," Historia 17, 1968, 381-3. "The 'Tradition' about the Murder of Hipparchus," Historia 17, 1968, 400-24. "The Cult of Harmodius and Aristogeiton," Philologus 114, 1970, 155-80. "The Date of the Callias Decrees," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 11, 1970, 185-96. Reprinted in Perikles und seine Zeit, ed. G. Wirth, Wege der Forschung, 162, 441- 454 Darmstadt 1979. "The Diapsephismos of Ath.Pol. 13, 5," Classical Philology 65, 1970, 243-6. "Nikostratos Dieitrephous Skambonides," Classical Quarterly N.S. 20, 1970, 41. "Themistocles' Archonship," Historia 20, 1971, 534-40. "The date of the 'Regulations for Miletus'," American Journal of Philology 92, 1971, 25-34. "Evidence for the Date of Herodotus' Publication," Journal of Hellenic Studies 91, 1971, 25-34. "Cleon's Attack against the Cavalry," Classical Quarterly N.S. 23, 1973, 24. "Plutarch and the Megarian Decree," Yale Classical Studies 24, 1975, 213-28. "IG I 2 39.52-57, and the 'Popularity' of the Athenian Empire," California Studies in Classical Antiquity 10, 1977, 39-55. "The Phaselis Decree," Classical Quarterly 29, 1979, 49-52. "On the Chronology of the Samian War," Journal of Hellenic Studies 99, 1979, 7-19. "Herodotus' Knowledge of the Archidamian War," Hermes 109, 1981, 149-56. "Eunapius' EPIDEMIA in Athens," Classical Quarterly 39, 1989, 517-523 "Julian's Persian Expedition in Ammianus and Zosimus," Journal of Hellenic Studies 111, 1991 p. 1-15. "The order of events in Ammianus Marcellinus," American Journal of Ancient History 10, 1985 [published in 1992], 28-40. "Studies in Ammianus Marcellinus I," Historia 41, 1992, 328-344. "Studies in Ammianus Marcellinus II", Historia 41, 1992, p.420-438. "FGrHist 328 (Philochorus) F 181," (with David Yates), Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 47 (2007) 31-37. "IG I3 66: The Aftermath of the Mytilenian Debate," sub iudice Historia. d. Invited journal articles None; all were refereed. e. Reviews M.I. Finley, The Greek Historians, New York 1959, Classical World 53 1959, 87. B.D. Meritt, The Athenian Year, Berkeley 1961, Classical Journal 57, 1962, 369-71. K. Reinhardt, Die Ilias und ihr Dichter, Göttingen 1961, Classical Journal 58, 1963, 276-8. C.M. Bowra, Periclean Athens, New York 1971, Classical World 65, 1971 p. 66. A.G. Woodhead, Thucydides on the Nature of Power, Cambridge 1970, American Journal of Philology 92, 1971, 350-60. E. Bloedow, Alcibiades Reexamined, Wiesbaden 1973, American Historical Review 75, 1967, p. 618. W. K. Pritchett, The Greek State at War, Berkeley 1971, 2 vols., Classical World 71, 1977 p. 278. R.J. Lenardon, The Saga of Themistocles, New York 1978, American Historical Review 85, 1979, 127. M. Cogan, The Human Thing: The Speeches and Principles of Thucydides' History, Chicago 1981, American Historical Review 88, 1982, 755. W.R. Connor, Thucydides, Princeton 1984, American Historical Review 79, 1985 p. 393. S. Flory, The archaic smile of Herodotus, Detroit 1987, Journal of Hellenic Studies 109, 1989, 217f. B. Shimron, Politics and Belief in Herodotus, Historia Einzelschrift Heft 58 (1989), Journal of Hellenic Studies 111, 1991, 241-2. K. Sacks, Diodorus Siculus, Princeton 1990, in Classical Philology 86, 1992, 383-388. Review article on three books about Herodotus (Harrison, Divinity and History, Dorati, Le Storia di Erodoto: etnografia e racconto, Bichler, Herodots Welt), Classical Review 51 (2001) 238-41. P. J. Rhodes, ed., Athenian Democracy, Oxford 2004, New England Classical Journal 32 (2005) 253-255. S. Bradbury, ed. and trans., Selected Letters of Libanius from the Age of Constantius and Julian, Liverpool 2004, New in England Classical Journal 32 (2005) 396-398. C. Ampolo, ed., Aspetti dell'opera di Felix Jacoby, Pisa: Scuole Normale Superiore 2006, in Classical Review 57 (2007) 437-439. L. Scott, Historical Commentary on Herodotus Book 6 (Mmemosyne Suppl.268), Brill 2005, in Classical Review 58 (2008) 35-38. f. Abstracts None. g. Invited Lectures "The Growth of the Athenian Empire," Wellesley College, October 1976. "Problems posed by 3-bar Sigma," The University of California at San Diego, May 1976. "The Speech in Historiography," Monash University, Australia, April 1983. "The theoretical Foundations of Greco-Roman Historiography," Melbourne University, Australia, April 1983. "Research and Explanation in History," The University of Tasmania and Macquarie University, Australia, April 1983. "History and its related Genres," Sydney University, April 1983. "Ammianus' Background," Oxford University, Liverpool University, England, March 1987 "Ammianus' Knowledge of Greek and Latin Literature," The Universities of London, Durham, Manchester and Leeds, England, March 1987. "The ancient tradition about Ptolemaios I and the statue of Sarapis from Sinope', The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 1995. "IG I3 66 and the Mytilenian Debate," Rutgers University, October 30, 2008. h. Papers read. "The Value of the Themistocles Decree," Meetings of the American Historical Association, New York, December 1966. "The Date of the Callias Decrees," Meetings of the Association of Ancient Historians, Buffalo, NY, May 1979. "Plutarch and the Megarian Decree," Meetings of the Association of Ancient Historians, Chapel Hill, NC, May 1973. "The Popularity of the Athenian Empire," Meetings of the Association of Ancient Historians, Berkeley, CA, May 1976. "Truth and Mimesis in History," Conference on Truth, Brown University, November 1983. "Research and Orientation," The Classics Club, Australian National University, Australia, April 1983. "Speeches in Ammianus Marcellinus," New England Colloquium of Ancient Historians, College of the Holy Cross, November 1984. "Human History and the Constraint of Fate in Herodotus," Colloquium at the Ohio State University on "The Perspective of the Ancient Historian," May 1987. "The Fourth-Century Tradition on Augustus," Colloquium on Augustus at Brown University, February 1987. "Literary Conventions in Greek Historiography", Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 1994. "Greek historical fragments", lecture in the course 'Fragmentary texts', part of the Dutch national training programme for Ph.D. students working with classical texts. University of Amsterdam. December 1995. "The Kallias Decrees," Symposium Laureoticum (Sounion, Greece), July 19, 2006, Institite for Philosphical Research. .